Zitat des Tages über Überlast / Overload:
I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.
I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.
I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.
I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
People say we live in an age of information overload. Right? I don't know about that, but I just know that I get too many marketing emails.
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.
Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.
Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.
Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.